Latent and manifest anti-fascism in Italian cinema

This talk will take a comparative look between early neorealist films with their manifest anti-fascist theme, films such as Roma citta aperta, 1945 (Open City) and Paisà, 1946 and later productions, Una giornata particolare, 1977 (A special day) and more recently La Concorrenza sleale, 2001(Unfair competition), films where anti-fascism is latent rather than manifest but which suggest that anti-fascism has not ceased to exist and has not been completely absorbed by a revisionary take on the Italian Fascist past.